Prof Geraldine Butler elected as Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology
February 2021
We are delighted to congratulate our colleague Prof Geraldine Butler on her election this month to the Fellowship of the American Academy of Microbiology.
Geraldine is Professor of Genetics in the UCD School of Biomolecular & Biomedical Science and a Principal Investigator in the UCD Conway Institute. She led the introduction of the single honours degree in Genetics in UCD in 2006, and acted as Head of Subject until 2017.
Fellows of the American Academy of Microbiology (AAM), an honorific leadership group within the American Society for Microbiology (ASM), are elected annually through a highly selective, peer-review process, based on their records of scientific achievement and original contributions that have advanced microbiology. Founded in 1899, the ASM is one of the largest life science societies in the world with over 30,000 members across the globe.
This year's Fellows were represented from 11 different countries, including Australia, Canada, China, France, Ireland, Sweden, Slovenia, Mexico, and Singapore, the UK and the United States.
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